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Description

The Volume Management daemon, vold, creates and maintains a file system image rooted at root-dir that contains symbolic names for removable media devices. These devices include CD-R, CD-RW, floppies, DVD, and USB and 1394 mass storage devices. The default root-dir is set to /vol if no directory is specified by the -d option.

vold reads the /etc/vold.conf configuration file upon startup. If the configuration file is modified later, vold must be told to reread the /etc/vold.conf file. Accomplish this rereading by entering:

vold is hotplug-aware for USB and 1394 mass storage devices, thus there is no need for stopping and restarting vold. It is recommended to eject(1) the “media” before hot-removing a device. The eject command unmounts any filesystems mounted from the media, making it safe to remove the device. (Note that all USB and 1394 devices, regardless of whether they contain removable media, are treated
like removable media devices).

Options

The following options are supported:

-n

Never writeback. Volume Management updates media labels with unique information if labels are not unique. This flag keeps Volume Management from changing your media. The default setting is FALSE.

-t

Dump NFS trace information to the log file. The default setting is FALSE.

-v

Provide lots of status information to the log file. The default setting is FALSE (do not provide status info to log file).

-droot-dir

Specify an alternate root directory. The default location is /vol. Setting this will also cause other Volume Management utilities to use this as the default root directory.

-fconfig-file

Specify an alternate configuration file. The default file is /etc/vold.conf.